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by allenz 8y ago
Many people, especially those outside the tech community, do not view law enforcement as an adversary. In the US, the balance that we have struck is that the government cannot search our property, except upon probable cause (fourth amendmen
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by allenz 8y ago
The The Atlantic article is sensationalized and oversimplified. The scientists are mainstream, and they found that most of the variation between people in complex traits such as height are due to variation in genes outside core pathways. In
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by allenz 8y ago
In this case, sites like 23andMe were only used to generate leads on suspects. Two independent forensic DNA tests were used for evidence of guilt. I agree that DNA testing has flaws, but that's the purpose of the criminal trial. Defend
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by allenz 8y ago
US law prohibits businesses from discrimination. If you're sued, you can't argue that you only discriminated the average amount.
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by allenz 8y ago
Biased models can cause ethical and legal problems. While your specific example is not a huge deal, the article gives the example of making hiring decisions in part based on sentiment analysis of candidates' text reviews. In this conte
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by allenz 9y ago
I'm not sure how Sci-Hub qualifies as a publication, but many publications are inaccessible due to censorship.
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by allenz 9y ago
That's not true--the most censored websites are actually inaccessible.
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by allenz 9y ago
More pictures: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collect...
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by allenz 9y ago
The Economist criticizes Vestager for fining Google and Apple. It concedes that both were anticompetitive, but complains that there is no proof "that consumers were denied a superior service as a consequence". But that's an i
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by allenz 9y ago
Cool, a fellow PROMYS alum! The only application I can think of is to use the patterns to generate fractals graphics e.g. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NumberSystemsUsingAComplex...
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by allenz 9y ago
True, but "politics distort prices" does not imply that "without politics, prices are accurate", which is what you claimed. Bubbles existed before Keynesian policies.
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by allenz 9y ago
That was probably the correct decision in 2005. Most file-sharing sites have gone out of business. The successful ones have distinguishing features. Box is still a B2B company, Drive benefits from synergy with the entire G Suite, and Dropbo
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by allenz 9y ago
Semantics aside, AI is being name-dropped to drive clicks. It's misleading. Doing logististic regression is not noteworthy and has not been for many decades. Further, we already knew how to improve memory without the regression, so the
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by allenz 9y ago
Sure, those terms are used in the paper. In general, open-loop vs. closed-loop refer to systems without and with feedback, respectively. Previous studies already showed that high-frequency stimulation could improve memory. Those were open-l
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by allenz 9y ago
Update on the slightly better HN title: 1. The regression model used has absolutely nothing to do with decoding memory. The only signal here is high-frequency EEG activity, which does not provide information on the structure of human memory
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by allenz 9y ago
This study is interesting, but it's not really AI and it's not really novel. The researchers fit a regression to predict word recall from high-frequency EEG activity when memorizing the word. We've known for several years tha
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by allenz 9y ago
1. I don't think that they have enough images taken in front of a green screen. Just changing the background has diminishing returns because the network may start to memorize the foreground images. 2. The network may rely on difference
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by allenz 9y ago
It's a novel approach, so there is more risk and more reward. I'd guess that it has a 5% chance of making it to market. Most likely, it's ineffective or unsafe (autoimmunity or a more mundane side effect), but it's also
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by allenz 9y ago
The article is really nicely written. I'd be happy to answer any questions about it.
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by allenz 9y ago
Yes, radiosurgery can be done with low risk of side effects.
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by allenz 9y ago
It is indeed a cancer treatment that needs a tumor to work. The authors call their technique "in situ vaccination" because it stimulates antibodies against that specific cancer, which can work throughout the body to destroy metast
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by allenz 9y ago
> Politics is not natural part... I wouldn't say that Chinese political habits are natural in the way that diet is natural, when the people in power discourage political expression not controlled by the party.
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by allenz 9y ago
There are graphics simulating push notifications of 1968 news every few paragraphs, captioned "Photo: Associated Press". They animate only once, so try reloading? I agree that it animates a tad too quickly, and that the animation
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by allenz 9y ago
To be honest this was my first reaction to Dropbox as well: just set up a VPN. Looking back, it's clear that I underestimated the advantages of Dropbox and the size of the market. Drew was prescient in identifying an elegant solution t
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by allenz 9y ago
If you're a behaviorist, you would define intelligence as "demonstrates problem-solving behavior". If you're not a behaviorist, then it's perfectly reasonable to presuppose some definition of intent. You could furth
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by allenz 9y ago
I apologize for calling this person out, but I found this funny: > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on
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by allenz 9y ago
> the end of a period characterized, and not incorrectly, by the opinion that a safe programming language guarantees... I don't think that there was ever such a period. Provable correctness always had the caveat of highly idealized
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by allenz 9y ago
I don't think that there is any philosophical difficulty in distinguishing an animal from a coffee table. Intelligence is a broad concept which can be defined or measured in several ways. One definition is the ability to act upon the e
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by allenz 9y ago
If you have the firehose, it is easy to derive the selective archive by filtering on the list of noteworthy accounts. Ignoring monetary costs, archiving the firehose is strictly better than selective archival. It enables future researchers
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by allenz 9y ago
Try http://web.archive.org/web/20180105120132/https://www.frbsf....

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